Proletarian Party

The Proletarian Party was a socialist political party in Poland that existed from 1882 to 1909. The party was founded by Ludwik Warynski in 1882 from members of socialist circles in Warsaw, and the party allied itself with Narodnaya Volya in 1884, embracing political and economic terror as a means to combat autocracy. The party supported proletarian internationalism and opposed the Polish independence movement. From 1883 to 1884, most of its chief activists were arrested, and its remaining members were arrested or executed before its 1886 dissolution. It was re-founded in 1888 by Marcin Kasprzak, and it also embraced terror. In 1893, the party merged into the Polish Socialist Party. In 1900, the party's third and final incarnation split from the PPS, but it was beset by Czarist oppression and dissolved in 1909.